“There can be a few things tweaked along the edges, the periphery, and this can be agreed upon,” one ownership source told Yahoo.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski. “I’m confident that would not be an issue if [Stern] did that.”

“It will be a very slight budge,” one high-ranking management source told Wojnarowski.

The players are determined to keep system issues in place that will give them the opportunity to move to move to teams without much of a luxury tax.

And several hardline owners — reportedly from smaller markets — are determined not to bend below giving the players more than 50 percent of the basketball-related revenue.